Most Men Are Chivalrous

MOST MEN ARE CHIVALROUS

The example of the Old Knights Still Potent-Chivalry Is Common Today Among Most Men Even if They Do Forget to Give Up a Seat to a Woman Now and Then:: The American Man Thoroughly to Be Depended Upon-His Nineteenth Century Chivalry-Exceptions but Prove the Rule-A Few Cubs and Brutes Yet Alive:::::

By FANNIE HUMPHREYS GAFFNEY, President National Council of Women of the United States

THE AGE F CHIVALRY HAS NOT PASSED. Time and advancing civilization have so spread the lesson of chivalry taught by the knights in darker ages that today chivalry is a custom so common to men that we only remark its presence when some one fails in its observance.

TODAY MOST MEN ARE CHIVALROUS, CHIVALROUS WITH A MATTER OF FACT EVERYDAY COURTESY AND RESPECT. I CARE NOT IF OUR MODERN KNIGHTS SOMETIMES FORGET OR PERHAPS REPUSE TO SURRENDER A CAR SEAT TO THE SHOPPING DAMSEL. THE LARGER CHIVALRY REMAINS.

The American man or the Americanized man is to be thoroughly depended upon by woman. He may not have all the manners of the Frenchman, but he has the nineteenth century chivalry best adapted for the American woman, and he is the knight of knights of honest, chivalrous manhood.

EXCEPTIONS BUT PROVE THE RULE. CUBS AND BRUTES OCCASIONALLY BREAK LOOSE FROM THE RANKS OF MEN AND DISTURB THE PEACE, BUT THEY FROM BUT AN INCIDENT IN AN OTHERWISE PEACEFUL AND ADMIRABLE STATUS QUO OF SOCIETY.